Congo has erupted in joy overnight after an extra-time goal against Jamaica sent the country back to the World Cup for the first time in more than half a century
April 01, 2026A veteran South African politician is campaigning for mayor of Johannesburg by snorkeling in a giant, water-filled trench
March 31, 2026Public hearings on proposed constitutional amendments in Zimbabwe have turned chaotic and violent
March 31, 2026Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has been sworn in for a third term three months after a disputed election
March 30, 2026Violence has erupted in the central Haitian town of Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite as a powerful gang warred with a vigilante group local, regional officials confirmed to the Associated Press
March 30, 2026African soccer’s governing body has announced a raft of “changes and improvements” to its statutes and regulations as it deals with the fallout from a contentious Africa Cup of Nations final
March 29, 2026Senegal keeps celebrating its Africa Cup title even after African soccer officials stripped it away and awarded it to Morocco
March 28, 2026Mothers in a displacement camp in southern Somalia struggle to keep their children alive as drought and aid disruptions deepen hunger, a crisis that now also has a link to the far-away Iran war
March 27, 2026The U.N. General Assembly’s resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations is being welcomed across Africa
March 26, 2026Authorities in northern Nigeria say armed militants ambushed security forces who were responding to a distress call in the northwestern state of Kebbi, fatally shooting nine soldiers, a police officer and one resident
March 25, 2026A lawyer for a Cambodian man deported by the United States to the African kingdom of Eswatini says he has been released from a prison to be repatriated
March 25, 2026Kenya’s flower industry is losing up to $1.4 million a week as the Iran war cuts demand and disrupts shipping
March 25, 2026Foreign forces are headed to fight Haiti’s gangs. But haven’t we been here before?
March 25, 2026The Grammy-award winning South African composer of the iconic chant that opens “The Lion King” is suing a comedian, saying he's denigrated the “Circle of Life” song with an intentional mistranslation
March 24, 2026Journalists and civilians have been held in shipping containers under brutal conditions by M23 rebels in eastern Congo, according to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) group
March 24, 2026Zimbabwe has released the key opponent of planned constitutional changes that could extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule and have the post elected by Parliament, not the people
March 23, 2026Nicholas Haysom has died at 73
March 20, 2026Attacks on a town along Sudan’s border with Chad have killed at least 17 people and injured 123, Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, said
March 18, 2026Rising energy costs caused by the Iran war have forced Egypt to hike fuel and cooking gas prices, hitting the country's already struggling poor and middle classes hard
March 18, 2026Morocco was stunningly awarded the Africa Cup of Nations title by appeals judges who overturned Senegal’s victory in a chaotic final in January
March 18, 2026Provisional results announced by authorities in the Republic of Congo show that President Denis Sassou N’Guesso has been reelected for a fifth consecutive term
March 15, 2026Police in Nigeria say suspected suicide bombings have killed at least 23 people and wounded 108 others in Maiduguri
March 17, 2026Bomb blasts hit Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, killing and injuring many people, according to emergency officials
March 17, 2026Africa’s great divide: Why the continent’s split is so exciting for science
March 16, 2026Senegal’s parliament has approved a bill that toughens punishment for homosexuality in the largely conservative West African nation
March 12, 2026An official says at least 50 people have died and 125 others are missing after landslides hit three districts in southern Ethiopia following a week of heavy rains
March 12, 2026A group of four migrants deported from the United States have arrived in the African nation of Eswatini, under a third-country program that rights groups protest
March 12, 2026How African designers are making their mark on global fashion
January 23, 2025This drone manufacturer wants to protect Africa’s power, mining and oil assets
September 09, 2025South Africa has deployed troops to the streets of the country's biggest city to help police fight gang violence and illegal mining
March 11, 2026South Africa says the new U.S. ambassador has been summoned to explain his criticism of the country’s policies
March 11, 2026A series of explosions attributed to drones has killed at least one person as the attack rocked downtown Goma in eastern Congo
March 11, 2026Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano say their meeting on May 16 is the biggest fight that can be made in mixed martial arts, and they’re both thrilled to end their lengthy retirements for the long-awaited showdown
March 11, 2026Jihadi extremist groups including Boko Haram have targeted Nigerian military camps in intensifying attacks in the last week
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